101 Top Japanese Mobile Companies and Startups of 2021

June 30, 2021

This article showcases our top picks for the best Japanese based Mobile companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Mobile industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

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Top Japanese Mobile Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

SoftBank

SoftBank

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SoftBank provides fixed-line, mobile telephony, internet, telecommunications, and digital television products.

Toyota Motor

Toyota Motor

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Toyota is an automotive company that manufactures and markets vehicles to over 170 countries and regions.

Toyota Motor

PayPay

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PayPay is an online payment app.

Toyota Motor

Mercari

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Mercari is a community-powered shopping app from Japan allowing anyone to buy and sell anything from anywhere.

Toyota Motor

Line

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LINE develops calling and messaging applications for mobile phones in Japan and internationally.

Toyota Motor

Nexon

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Nexon is an entertainment software developing company that creates free-to-play online games.

Toyota Motor

Gunosy

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Gunosy is a news curation application that covers a wide range of news from entertainment news to political news.

Toyota Motor

Kyash

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Kyash is a fintech platform providing mobile banking services with full-stack banking technology currently offering digital wallet app.

Toyota Motor

Gumi Inc

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Gumi is a game development company that features a mobile social network.

Toyota Motor

Wonderplanet

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Wonderplanet designs and develops native language applications and games for smart phones and tablets.

Toyota Motor

Nota

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Nota develops an app for seriously easy sharing of screen caps and GIFs and Scrapbox, a new style of note-taking for teams.

Toyota Motor

Finatext

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Finatext provides cloud infrastructure and data analysis infrastructure for developing financial services.

Toyota Motor

Origami Japan

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Origami Japan is a leading Japanese mobile payment platform.

Toyota Motor

GREE

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Gree is a Japanese internet media company that provides mobile social networking, and mobile technology services for its users.

Toyota Motor

ASOBIMO

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ASOBIMO is a developer of mobile MMORPGs with the goal to be [The No.1 online game company in Japan]

Toyota Motor

TakeMe Co., Ltd.

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TakeMe offers an “All-in-One” payment platform for our pre- and post- pay value added services for merchants to digitally transform quickly

Toyota Motor

Kakao Japan

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Kakao Japan is a free smartphone calling and messenger application.

Toyota Motor

One Tap BUY

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One Tap BUY provides my banker, the financial smartphone application.

Toyota Motor

Goodpatch

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Goodpatch is a Tokyo-based company developing and designing user interfaces for web companies.

GINKAN

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A Tokyo based startup focused on mobile app development & management. Runs SynchroLife, the app loved by eaters!

Toyota Motor

KDDI

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KDDI is providing telecommunication services for finance, energy, entertainment, and education sectors.

Toyota Motor

TableCheck

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TableCheck is a world-class reservation platform that centralizes reservations from third-party reservation sites.

Toyota Motor

cocone

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cocone develops and publishes mobile games and applications, and provides assistance to maintain their social media presence.

Toyota Motor

CANDY HOUSE

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CANDY HOUSE is a design house catering simple and smart services and things that are enjoyable and fun like candy.

Toyota Motor

Spotlight

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Spotlight provides an application that automatically detects visits to stores and rewards users with points that are exchangeable.

Toyota Motor

Mynet Inc.

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Mynet offers community games to the Japanese and Asian markets.

Toyota Motor

SmartNews

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SmartNews is a news app that helps users find quality news beyond the filter bubble.

Toyota Motor

Net Protections

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Net Protections is a Operation of “NP postpay” payment for BtoC mail order.

Toyota Motor

Payme Japan

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Payme provides a platform for mobile payments to help users in Japan.

Toyota Motor

HEROZ

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HEROZ provides mobile media, marketing, and SNS-related services.

Toyota Motor

Akippa

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Akippa is an Osaka-based company that offers parking space reservation services.

Toyota Motor

BearTail

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BeatTail is a Japanese SaaS company providing travel and expense management services to businesses.

Toyota Motor

Crowd Cast

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Simplify payment between employees and organization

Toyota Motor

Line Pay

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Line Pay is a secure & easy payment platform.

Toyota Motor

JapanTaxi

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JapanTaxi is a Provider of taxi booking services designed to cater the needs of people in Japan.

Toyota Motor

Coiney

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Coiney provides smarphone-based credit card processing services in Japan.

Toyota Motor

X Locations

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X-Locations is a Mobile Advertising and incidental services and Location intelligence.

Toyota Motor

AppBrew(Lips)

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AppBrew develops LIPS, a mobile application for users to share and read real reviews on cosmetics, nail care, personal care, etc.

Toyota Motor

Ubiregi

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Ubiregi offers a point-of-sale (POS) system for iPad devices.

Toyota Motor

Yukai Engineering

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Yukai Engineering is a robotics startup that develops lifestyle and healthcare products.

Toyota Motor

Let

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Let is a mobile app that allows users to buy and sell goods with translation.

Toyota Motor

NearMe

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NearMe is created to find people who want to go in the same direction by taxi and can share.

Toyota Motor

Nyle

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Nyle is a web consulting company specialized in providing web solutions for internet media businesses.

Toyota Motor

Fuller

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Fuller is a software development company that builds mobile phone applications and provides internet media services.

Toyota Motor

Africa Incubator

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Africa Incubator is an IT company that specializes in developing mobile applications for sales management.

Toyota Motor

ROYAL GATE Inc

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Royal Gate us a tech company that offers mobile payment devices, technologies, and solutions.

Toyota Motor

LBB

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LBB is a mobile order app that allows customers to use their smartphones to order to ease queues when crowded.

Toyota Motor

WED

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WED is an information technology based company.

Toyota Motor

Square Enix

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Square Enix develops, publishes, and markets interactive entertainment titles worldwide.

Toyota Motor

Aiming

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Aiming Inc provides assistance with the planning, production, and development of online games.

Toyota Motor

AI CROSS

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AI CROSS is an internet company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help enterprises communicate through mobile with their customers.

Toyota Motor

Miive

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Mobile wallet-based employee benefit SaaS.

Toyota Motor

Nagisa

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Nagisa provides several smartphone apps like slide movie and livre.

Toyota Motor

Azit

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Azit is an application developer that aims to close the gap in everyone’s mobility.

Toyota Motor

Al Travel

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Al Travel is a next-generation cloud-type business travel arrangement and management system (BTM).

Toyota Motor

YAMAP

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YAMAP is a App can track and log your outdoors, view elevation info, and build an online outdoor journal.

Toyota Motor

Cubeacon

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Cubeacon gives smart solution for iBeacon technology

Toyota Motor

JTOWER

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JTower offers personalized design solutions for IT infrastructure and systems.

Toyota Motor

BluAge

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BluAge is a company that specializes in developing room search application.

Toyota Motor

Studio Ousia

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Studio Ousia develops technology to generate web page links using machine-learning algorithms and natural language processing.

Toyota Motor

G-cluster

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G-cluster Global provides services worldwide, using its cloud-based content provision technology, G-cluster.

Toyota Motor

trippiece

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Trippiece is a web service enabling users to share travel plans with each other.

Toyota Motor

Moi Corporation

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MOI is a Connecting the World in Realtime.

Toyota Motor

ONE of THEM

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ONE of THEM is an online platform that offers content, planning services, development, production, and management.

Toyota Motor

Sonix

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Sonix provides mobile solution business, IoT solution business, and cloud services.

Toyota Motor

SpeakBUDDY

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SpeakBUDDY is an E-Learning company.

Toyota Motor

Motion Lib

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Motion Lib is a developer of haptics technology intended to increase collaboration between humans and robots.

Toyota Motor

Hacosco

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Hacosco is a smart phone VR service using a simple viewer that can be used with your smart phone, to experience VR (virtual reality) easily.

Toyota Motor

Last One Mile

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Last One Mile provides the infrastructure to allow connections between telecommunications facility and its customers

Toyota Motor

VASILY, Inc.

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VASILY operates an online fashion coordination community.

Toyota Motor

Japan Legal System Institute

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Legal Technology, Legal Tech, Artificial Intelligence, AI, Document, SaaS, Smart Contract App.

Toyota Motor

Evolany

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Evolani is a mechanical labor by providing the most convenient and fun automated tools

Toyota Motor

SEQSENSE

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SEQSENSE develops autonomous mobile robots and related products.

Toyota Motor

U-MaP

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U-MAP is a start-up from Nagoya University to develop industrial materials.

Toyota Motor

KLab

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KLab is a planning, developing, and operating online mobile games.

Toyota Motor

miil

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miil is a smartphone application that enables its users to share photos of food they cooked, ate, and want to eat.

Toyota Motor

neuet

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neuet develops and operates a smartphone application that offers bike-sharing services.

Toyota Motor

Nupp1

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Nupp1 is a mobile application to find a fitness center.

Toyota Motor

LOGIC Japan

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Logic is a software company developing a new care record system developed at the request of care providers.

Toyota Motor

basic

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Basic provides a range of internet application marketing services.

Toyota Motor

DIRIGIO

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DIRIGIO is an Operation and development of mobile order & pay platform.

Toyota Motor

anamne Inc.

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anamne is that you can medical counseling by app and web online for women.

Toyota Motor

NTT DoCoMo

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NTT DOCOMO provides mobile telecommunication services through its W-CDMA networks in Japan.

Toyota Motor

and factory

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And factory is a smartphone business company that works on different service applications centered on the smartphone business.

Toyota Motor

Follop

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Follop is an application that turns SNS posts into cash instantly.

Toyota Motor

Video Matching

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Video Matching is a mobile application and web service development company.

Toyota Motor

X-mobile

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X-Mobile is thoroughly committed to communication quality so that customers can use it with peace of mind.

Toyota Motor

Happy Elements Japan

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Happy Elements is focused on the development of social, web, and mobile games as well as publishing services.

Toyota Motor

SakeWiz

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SakeWiz is a developed an app for sake and operated an Italian restaurant

Toyota Motor

Fabrica Communications

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Fabrica Communications engages in web, smartphone, and mobile content development businesses.

Toyota Motor

Nobollel

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Nobollel is a planning, development and operation of game applications utilizing Unity Planning, development and operation of game app.

Toyota Motor

meuron

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meuron is an internet based company.

Toyota Motor

Kataribe

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Kataribe is focusing on smartphone marketing, offers a variety of solutions to enhance content quality and content volume.

Toyota Motor

Glider Associates

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Glider Associates is an information technology and services company that offers Antenna, a smartphone curation application.

Toyota Motor

Lute

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Lute is an Instagram Stories media that produce and deliver video content specialized for mobile to deliver edgy content.

Toyota Motor

Tamecco

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Tamecco specializes in Real-Time Location Services (RTLS) for major retail brands, industrial, manufacturing & semi-conductor companies.

Toyota Motor

Context app

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Context App is a mobile application that enables its users to compose text messages with attached pictures for their friends and family.

Toyota Motor

App-CM

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Japanese startup developing in-line video ads platform for smartphones

Toyota Motor

Pairy

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Pairy is a Japan-based social network application for couples that allows users to keep relationship-related records.

Toyota Motor

Panasonic

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Panasonic Corporation is one of the largest electronic product manufacturers in the world, comprised of over 634 companies.

Toyota Motor

i cubed systems

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Ai cube de Systems provides information technology-related solutions for mobile devices.

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